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We are happy to announce the news about our itinerant educational format
AtWork. This year we have decided to unite all the 4 chapters that we are
going to implement under the same umbrella topic: AtWork Tour 2018 “I had a dream”. 100 participants, 100
dreams, 100 projects.

The first leg of the Tour is AtWork Rome that will be implemented in
partnership with Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea on May
24-27th. The workshop, held on the premises of the Gallery, will be
conducted by our advisor Simon Njami and the created notebooks will be exhibited
at the Gallery from May 29th to June 4th.

The call to action this year also includes an open call for
participation. Young creative talents and students from different fields
from all over the world can apply for any of the 4 chapters of the tour: Rome,
Ndjamena, Kampala, Harare. The Moleskine Foundation will be giving out a
number of scholarships for each chapter that will cover the workshop
participation costs. Find out al…

Art Noise Travel Residency Program invites visual artists, Applied
Artists, designers, Art Theorists/writers, cultural students to explore African
Arts and Cultures through work-study relationships with contemporary African
Artists and Traditional Artisans as well as personal work across three African
countries and their communities for a period of 3 months. The selected
applicants will receive a monthly allowance of up to $2,000 depending on the
project, travel allowance, insurance, safety and insurance workspace and
residential accommodation in the communities.
All Art created during the residency will be presented either in a public
exhibition space.
The presentation should also include a short written presentation about the experience,
which will be shared in our magazine at the end of the year.

The selected African countries to be visited are:
Kenya
Tunisia
Mauritius
South Africa
Lagos (where the final exhibition will take place) *Due to the
instability in some African Countries, t…

Founded
by the late Chinua Achebe on 27th June 1981, the Association of Nigerian
Authors (ANA) is the umbrella body that caters for the interest of all the
creative writers & critics in Nigeria.

Towards achieving the goal of unbundling its annual international convention,
the Association has decided to institute an international conference on the
rigorous criticism of new, emergent or contemporary Nigerian literature.
Towards achieving this, ANA has partnered with Alex Ekwueme Federal University
Ndufu- Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI) as the host for its international conference.
AE-FUNAI was picked because of its general image as a dynamic, hospitable, art
and literary-friendly institution with a burgeoning humanistic ethos. Conference THEME: EXPANDING FRONTIERS: NIGERIA’S CREATIVE WRITING IN THE 21ST
CENTURY

The Expanding
Frontiers conference provides scholars the opportunity to articulate as well as
interrogate these new trends and the stylistic evolutions of Nigerian
literature in the 21st…

LONDON.-Christie’s announced the
results achieved for the palimpsest of a Qur’an copied onto a Christian text,
realising £596,790 during the Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including
Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction. As Lot 1 of the sale, this remarkable
manuscript dates to the earliest period of Islam. The leaves from these folios
derive from an earlier Coptic manuscript containing passages from the Book of
Deuteronomy, which is part of the Torah and the Christian Old Testament. It was
very probably produced in Egypt, home to the Coptic community, at the time of
the Arab conquest. This appears to be the only recorded example of a Qur'an written above a
Christian text, and the importance of this manuscript resonates with the
historical reality of religious communities in the Near East and as such is an
invaluable survival from the earliest centuries of Islam. Source: ArtDaily Newspaper

Take part if you are 14 years or younger!
The honorary chair for the Children Peace Image of the Year is Waris Dirie, a
committed human rights activist. The Award is supported by the German Youth
Photography Award.

Entry is free of charge.

Prizes:
The five best works of the Alfred Fried Photography
Award and the winner of the Children Peace Image of the
Year will be honoured with the Alfred Fried Photography Award
Medal, the photographers will be invited to attend the award ceremony
in Vienna on 20 September 2018, with travel expenses and accommodation paid.

The overall winner Peace Image of the Year will receive
a cash price of € 10,000.
The Peace Image of the Year will be shown for one year in the Austrian
Parliament and will be included in the permanent art collection of the Austrian
Parliament.

The Editing Room: Critical Writing Workshop Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. www.ccalagos.org Initiated by CCA Lagos’ Associate Curator, Iheanyi Onwuegbucha and
Led by Paris-based French and English curator and Writer, Caroline Hancock. The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, invites young curators, art
writers, critics, and practitioners involved in (or interested in becoming more
involved in) art criticism and curating to a series of critical writing
workshops that will take place throughout 2018. This forms an important part of
the 12-month long programme to celebrate CCA, Lagos’ 10th anniversary. The
workshops are designed to highlight recent shifts and activities in cultural
production and in turn provide participants with tools to generate critical
responses to a dynamic and vibrant art sector. The different sessions of the
workshop will be led by seasoned professionals with a focus on strengthening
participants' critical skills, especially in creating a discursive platform …

MIND POLICE A
puppeteer of my mind you bewilder my every thought The
good and bad you bind And
sail to your cessation court My
intuitions become blind And
for your directions I sort. A
conjurer of my emotions I'm
so subsumed in your shadow My
instincts are open to seductions To
your lead I now follow My
psyche yearning for solutions As
my sanity is carved hollow You
invade my delicate sentience And
arrest my fickle conscience My
wit is devoid of patience It
bows to your seductive presence Like
was drowned the Pharaoh of yore who was full of incense Only
divinity can end for me this bleak sentence

********** Abdulsamad Papilo is a budding poet.
He holds a Bsc. Economic from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He was born
in 1993 and raised in Kaduna State, Nigeria. His hobbies are writing,
reading, playing board games and listening to good music.

Book: From Caves of Rotten Teeth Author: A. Igoni Barrett Publisher: Daylight Media Ltd. 2005 Reviewer: Nana Sule From
Caves of Rotten Teeth (Short Stories) There
are fourteen stories in this book. What each story does is not to immerse the
reader in a world where he is marveled by some artistry, but to help the reader
recognize their self in them. The
stories explore adultery, unemployment, poverty, violence and the everyday
circumstances that can arise from living in Nigeria at this time. Although set
in 2005, these stories are more a reflection of how sadly, as a nation, the
country is still flying on sore wings. While
each story is written with careful narration, simple sentences and matching
metaphors, They
would be Swine is the one that hits home. Never had the Nigerian Police
checkpoints and the simple waste of time and domineering nature of armed men
been better portrayed. There, in that one narration, lay the summation of all
that is wrong with a country. Yet if finding a child’s h…

The second edition of the annual Nigerian
Festival of Teen Artists (NIFESTEENA) earlier scheduled to hold next week in
Kaduna, Kaduna state has been postponed to next month. It will now hold from
May 6 to 9, 2018. A statement from the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation,
organizer of the festival, explained that the postponement was to accommodate
the interests of secondary school students currently on vacation. The first edition of the festival
held last year in Minna, Niger state. NIFESTEENA is a platform where Nigerian
teen artists who are students or pupils and aged no more than 20-yrs annually
converge to display their talents through contests, exhibitions and discourses. The festival draws participants from
all over Nigeria to compete for prizes in the categories of poetry writing,
short story writing, painting and photography. Other categories are spoken
word, performance poetry, folksong, English song and cultural display.

The Abuja Writers Forum (AWF), organizer of the Abuja
Literary Festival will host the festival this year from June 28-30, 2018 in
Abuja after a hiatus. Edith Yassin, the Public Relations Officer of the
AWF in a statement explained that the Festival is being re-launched to mark the
tenth anniversary of the Abuja Writers Forum that began its literary activities
in June 2008. The festival will feature bookrama sessions with
authors from within and outside Abuja, panel discussions, film screenings, drama
performances, an international art and photo exhibition, poetry performances, a
five-day drama workshop, a book exhibition and a script-pitch. The workshop is designed for potential
dramatists between the ages of 18-35, focusing on developing scripts relevant
to societal development and will be facilitated by two experienced dramatists. There would also be a one-day digital media
training for the workshop participants as part of the Festival. The objective
is for the participants to recognis…

Organizers of the maiden Pleasant Library
and Books/Makarantar Mallam Bambadiya Hausa short story contest have released
the shortlist of 15 from a longlist of 50 as selected by the judges. Winners of
the final prize will be announced in June at a ceremony due to hold in Katsina.

The 1st Prize winner of the competition will receive N55,000
while the 2nd Prize winner will receive N35,000 and the 3rd prize winner will
receive N25,000. Consolation prizes will be provided to writers on positions
4th to 12th of N12,500 each.

As earlier announced, all shortlisted stories will be edited
and published as an anthology, to be launched on an announced date.